ROYA SO ARTSY

artist, photographer + creative director

[royasoartsy]

your dream life is hidden in the details of your daily routine

[royasoartsy]

[royasoartsy]

[royasoartsy]

Our Amazon 2020 Holiday Gift Guide!

Our Amazon 2020 Holiday Gift Guide!

We’ve curated the ultimate Amazon 2020 Holiday Gift Guide so that you can find cool + affordable gifts for all of your loved ones this year. Here’s a sneak peak of a few of our favorite collections:

Cool Gadgets for Techy Vloggers, Photographers and Content Creators

Fujifilm Instax Mini 70 Polaroid Camera

Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II Digital Camera

VANKYO Leisure 410 Mini Projector

FitbitVersa

View On WordPress

[royasoartsy]

Hey Vogue, WTF?

Written by Roya Ansari, edited by Jennifer Karami

Vogue made history in their December 2020 issue by publishing their first-ever cover *man* in 175 years of existence. That’s right, the very first man to grace the front cover of Vogue is none other than Harry Styles. While Twitter alternately praised Harry and argued over whether or not he was destroying masculinity (spoiler: he’s not), they…

View On WordPress

[royasoartsy]

How to Get Over a Toxic Relationship & Avoid Unhealthy Relationships

How to Get Over a Toxic Relationship & Avoid Unhealthy Relationships

Ginger Dean (@lovingmeafterwe) is a Psychotherapist whose brutally honest yet crucial relationship advice has created an Instagram following

By Jennifer Karami

When it comes to toxic, unhealthy, or even abusive relationships, Ginger Dean (@lovingmeafterweon Instagram) tells it like it is. Her comments are filled with people lamenting “I feel called out,” “You didn’t have to do me like…

View On WordPress

[royasoartsy]

Functional Art: Where Art Collecting Becomes Interior Design

Functional Art: Where Art Collecting Becomes Interior Design

image via anure

Meet, functional art. A world where the concept of interior decorating and furnishing your space is synonymous. No longer separate tasks on a to-do list, because adorning our spaces with functional items that are as beautiful as they are useful encapsulates it all into one. A concept that’s parallel to the famous slogan of any generic commercial ever aired: where [art] formmeets

View On WordPress

[royasoartsy]

#ShopSmall with Our Favorite Fine Indie Jewelry Brands

#ShopSmall with Our Favorite Fine Indie Jewelry Brands

The Indie Jewelry Instagram Takeover image via @royasoartsy

Indie fine jewelry brands on Instagram have given us nothing but joy in our leisurely perusal through the influx of gleamy, glitzy, light-reflecting precious metals, jewels and trinkets. It’s no secret that there are tons of perks to shopping small. A transaction we don’t think about earth-friendly way to support artisans in your…

View On WordPress

[royasoartsy]

The Best Horror Movies on Netflix to Get Your Spooky On

The Best Horror Movies on Netflix to Get Your Spooky On

When you’re an avid Netflix troll, there’s nothing better than finding a good horror movie. Watching them is more than an escape from reality, it’s a 2 hour adrenaline rush, an adventure. Horror is a particularly unique genre in its capability shut down the “emotional switch” in our brains and peak our curiosity. It’s a way to live out the hypothetical from a safe place; something concrete we…

View On WordPress

[royasoartsy]

Our Picnic Style Edit

Relive your childhood bliss and close out the summer season with one last stylish #picnic. Peep our new Picnic Style Edit to see our fave leisurely outdoor must-haves!

image via refinery29.com

Barefoot in our frilly cotton dresses, our unbrushed tresses cascading down our backs, matching flower crowns made from dandelions, glass tea cups refracting sunlight into little rainbow kaleidoscopes that projected onto a checkered blanket. A basket that opened with a hinged lid, stuffed with crackers, cookies and freshly picked fruit. Stylish little picnics are some…

View On WordPress

[royasoartsy]

GLITTERCORE: The 90s + Y2K Aesthetic Movement Encapsulates Everything We Know and Love

GLITTERCORE: The 90s + Y2K Aesthetic Movement Encapsulates Everything We Know and Love

It feels like Paris Hilton circa 2003 came and transformed the internet into a sparkly palace. With one giant swoop of her wand, a digital palace similar to Versailles appeared; bursting with imagery that merely exists to pay tribute to the 90’s/early 00’s.

It’s everywhere. Glitter textures layered over dreamy pastels; hazy motion-blurred photos that are sprinkled with twinkles, holographic…

View On WordPress

[royasoartsy]

#FEMMESPO: Interview with ASHA KIANI, MULTIMEDIA ARTIST

Protected: #FEMMESPO: Interview with ASHA KIANI, MULTIMEDIA ARTIST

Our FEMMESPO column highlights independent womxn who are making their own way in the world and inspiring us to do the same. This round we are featuring 26-year-old Asha Kiani, a multi-modal artist from Fremantle, Western Australia.

Asha is a self-employed freelance artist who has worked in a variety of arts including graphic design, photography, film, and music production. She has chosen not…

View On WordPress

[royasoartsy]

Go Viral on Tiktok: Tips and Tricks to Create Beautiful, Binge-Worthy Content

Go Viral on Tiktok: Tips and Tricks to Create Beautiful, Binge-Worthy Content

Written by Roya Ansari, professional photographer + millennial pioneer

Without delving into algorithims, going viral on Tiktok is relatively easy. Tiktok was specifically programmed to push your content out to viewers that aren’t following you. Being a millennial, I am part of the the first group of social media pioneers to figure out how to leverage social media platforms as marketing tools;…

View On WordPress

[royasoartsy]

The 10 Best Skincare Products for Dry Skin

The 10 Best Skincare Products for Dry Skin

Photo courtesy of Marie Bärsch

Photo courtesy of Marie Bärsch

photos courtesy of Marie Bärsch

I’ll keep the message short and sweet. I’ve curated a list of the best skincare products for dry skin that I know are worth keeping tabs on. For my fellow dry skinned beauties, that *do-it-the-night-before-wake-up-the-next-morning-still-moisturized* type energy is one of the most sought-after…

View On WordPress

[royasoartsy]

Teaching Kids About Consent

Consent is best learned at an early age. By preschool, kids are already getting messages about relationships and boundaries from TV, movies, social media, and friends. Thus, it’s an ideal time for parents to step up and start talking about consent. Teaching consent in early childhood can help kids become more empathetic, respectful, and emotionally intelligent, and can even help protect them from…

View On WordPress

[royasoartsy]

10 Beauty Hacks to Rock Your World

10 Beauty Hacks to Rock Your World

These 10 beauty hacks were personally learned the hard way through hours of research and even more dollars spent; in a world where makeup videos weren’t nearly as accessible nor were there as many beauty gurus on Youtube/social media to guide us as there are now. These beauty hacks are truly too good not to share and I pass them down to you with the hopes that you won’t take as many L’s as I did…

View On WordPress

[royasoartsy]

The Secret to Perfect Hardboiled Eggs

The Secret to Perfect Hardboiled Eggs

My hardboiled eggs are an art form that I learned from none other than the kitchen guru/foodie herself, Chrissy Teigen. I grew up thinking hardboiled eggs were just hardboiled eggs — they were but one and the same. Well, until Chrissy Teigen showed us that we were doing it wrong.

[the_ad id=”8710″]

Eating hardboiled eggs goes past patting yourself on the back for choosing a healthy snack to…

View On WordPress